I was just watching CNN and saw a promo for a show about “The noose as a symbol of American hatred.”  How stupid.  Why not have a knife or a gun or a stick or a pipe or a spitball or any of a million things that people use as weapons against someone they hate.  You can select just about any object, and it has been used for ill will towards someone else.  The noose is definitely a symbol of something awful - hanging someone is terrible.  It was used by some racists against the racial group they hated.  However, it isn’t a symbol of racial hatred.  That’s ridiculous.

Unfortunately, hatred is something that people do.  We wish it weren’t so, but it’s true nevertheless.   Are we to do away with nooses as a prop for Halloween ghouls?  Should old western movies that show a noose hanging from a tree be banned now?  Should we push legislation to criminalize anything that has ever been used to show racial hatred?

Similarly, consider the words “nigger” and “fag.”  Sure, they’re reprehensible words.  So are the words “ho” “redneck” “honky” “jap” “wetback” “fuck” “fat” “skinny”, to name just a few.  Just because they’re reprehensible words doesn’t mean that people who use them should be charged with crimes.  Using such language is in bad taste and it is unkind, but it isn’t against the law.   For that matter, perhaps we should ban speech altogether. No telling when someone might utter a word that someone else might consider hateful or hurtful.  The jury of public opinion will curb hate speech of all kinds - not the court system.

Another “symbol” that has been vilified to the point where it is banned in certain places is the Confederate flag. It’s getting ridiculous. I won’t even get into all the positive things that came out of the Confederate states. Slavery was something that only a very small percentage of the wealthy could afford. Many, MANY white Southerners fought against slavery. Many MANY white Southerners knew that slavery was wrong and they worked to end it.  White people are not the enemies of the black people, and black people are not the enemies of white people.  We all are God’s creatures, and the sky is blue above all of us.

I’m tired of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton making racial issues out of everything - to their own advantage.   Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are two of the most blatant racists in our world today.  Everything they say and do is all about white against black and black against white.   They are black, though, so they get a pass on their racial words and actions.  They are so color-driven, they can’t see anything else.  The amusing thing is that the ONLY slur that won’t be tolerated from a black person is a gay slur.  i.e. Isaiah Washington. 

Some day people are going to wake up to the fact that we’re all people, and we’re all in this together. All this racial hyping is hurting everyone.

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